Description: Person in a boat on wheels with League of Women Voters banner. Boat is MDI LWV float in the Bar Harbor 1980 4th of July parade. Louise Gilbert rode the entire route and tossed taffy.
Description: Woman waving from a boat on wheels with League of Women Voters banner. Boat is MDI LWV float in the Bar Harbor 1980 4th of July parade. Louise Gilbert rode the entire route and tossed taffy.
Description: Display entitled “Synfuels is Sinful.” At an Earth Day 1980 presentation at the COA the MDI League sponsored an informational booth about synfuels. LaRue Spiker and Helen Douglas designed and set up the display.
Description: League of Women Voters banner and display table. At an Earth Day 1980 presentation at the COA the MDI League sponsored a booth entitled “Synfuels is Sinful.” LaRue Spiker and Helen Douglas designed and set up the display.
Description: Two harnessed work horses. Paul Birdsall’s horses were a feature of a visit to Birdsall’s farm at Penobscot on March 29, 1980 in connection with a farmland study by MDI League of Women Voters.
Description: Sheep in barnyard. Sheep were a feature of a visit to Birdsall’s farm at Penobscot on March 29, 1980 in connection with a farmland study by MDI League of Women Voters.
Description: Three women standing with pile of yard in background. LaRue Spiker, Hollis Piatt and Gail Meier are looking at wool spun by Mollie Birdsall during a visit to Birdsall’s farm at Penobscot on March 29, 1980 in connection with a farmland study by MDI League of Women Voters.
Description: Woman standing and reading. Gladys Butler is visiting Birdsall’s farm at Penobscot on March 29, 1980 in connection with a farmland study by MDI League of Women Voters.
Description: Group of women patting a black lamb. Jackie Russell (back), Maggie Wheelwright, Doris Riley, Barbara Dillon, Mollie Birdsall (holding lamb), and Ruth Cummins visit Birdsall’s farm at Penobscot on March 29, 1980 in connection with a farmland study by MDI League of Women Voters.
Description: Group of women and men standing in front of a barn door. Mollie Birdsall talks to Helen Douglas, Louise Gilbert and Don Sawyer. Visit to Birdsall’s farm at Penobscot on March 29, 1980 is in connection with a farmland study by MDI League of Women Voters
Description: Women lined up along a fence view and handle sheep. LaRue Spiker looks on as Mollie Birdsall holds black lamb. Louise Gilbert, Ruth Cummins, Doris Riley are along fence. Visit to Birdsall’s farm at Penobscot on March 29, 1980 is in connection with a farmland study by MDI League of Women Voters..
Description: League of Women Voters banner above a bulletin board with various photographs and documents displayed underneath. Under the bulletin board there is a small round table with one chair to the right. Table has books and papers laid on it.
Description: Interior of Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum 1980s.Bare wood shelves, bottles across top sheves. Photographic display of Somesville and Hall quarry ships, with half hull model and brass bell.
Description: Dr. Virginia Somes Sanderson inside MDI Historical Society Selectmen’s Building. Seated at table, wearing blue shirt under long sleeve white blouse with blue pattern. Surrounded by museum exhibits.
Description: Color slide fall leaves on trees and a rushing river headed toward a pile of rocks with trees growing out of them. From box labled: Great Heath & Col. Falls, April 1983
Description: Color slide a slice cut into the ground showing ground cover on top and layer of dark soil underneath. From box labled: Great Heath & Col. Falls, April 1983